Planning Agreed!
It’s a busy time at Wynngate right now. As well as a number of other great projects, we’re excited to reveal that we’ve had planning permission agreed for one of our ongoing projects. The 4 [...]
How Often Does The Average Homeowner Move?
How long have you lived in your current home? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? Do you know how long the average UK homeowner lives in their home? The answer to that has [...]
How Home Technology Can Simplify Your Life
In the modern world we live in, everything around us is becoming increasingly more technological and we’re relying more and more on technology all the time. This is true even in our homes, where technology [...]
Property Market Boom After Brexit Deadline Extended
Estate agents are noting a surge in both properties coming to market and the number of buyers looking for properties within the last month or so. This follows on from the announcement of the October [...]
Growth in The New Build Property Market
Did you know that in the last year new build house prices rose by an average of 3.68% per square metre across The UK? This is some incredibly positive news for both The UK housing [...]
London is World’s Top City For Wealthy People
London has battled against Brexit-scaremongering to be crowned as the top spot for wealthy individuals to live in. Second on the list was New York, followed by Hong Kong, Singapore and Los Angeles. “Despite the [...]
Have You Heard of The Tiny House Movement?
“The tiny-house movement is an architectural and social movement that advocates living simply in small homes…there is no set definition as to what constitutes a tiny house. However, a residential structure under 500 square feet [...]
Struggling to sell your property? That’s Where Wynngate Could Come In
If you’re trying to sell your home, it can be incredibly frustrating if things don’t happen quickly, especially in the current property market. After the initial exciting flurry of viewers and interest, things can go [...]
New ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful’ Commission Announced
The UK’s Secretary for Housing, James Brokenshire, has recently launched a new commission to promote better design and style of new homes. The ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful’ commission will work to expand on the recently [...]
Roof light door
UPDOOR Rooflight Skymaker Designed for flat roofs, the stylish UPDOOR rooflight offers safe and smooth access to outside spaces, such as roof terraces or rooftops. Its modern minimalist profile integrates seamlessly with the architecture of [...]
Panovscott rearranges Sydney cottage around central courtyard garden
Local architecture studio Panovscott has modernised a cottage in Sydney by introducing a courtyard that the living spaces and bedrooms all open directly onto. The house, which was likely constructed in the 1980s, occupies a plot on a lane lined with [...]
Premier Loft Ladder introduces the Italian Collection
Premier Loft Ladders have launched a carefully selected range of products encapsulating Italian innovation and design while benefiting from high standards of workmanship and the use of quality materials. Italian manufacturer Rintal has over 40 [...]
The Continuous line Acoustic Louvre System by Caice
Caice has introduced its new Continuous Line Acoustic Louvre System. With no visible vertical joints it is the preferred aesthetic solution for many Architects and Developers, as well as being the design solution for Acoustic [...]
New Wall-top seating range from Furnitubes
Furnitubes has launched a new range of wall-top seating. Low level retaining walls are increasingly popular features in new landscape schemes, serving to deal with level changes across a site and often as containment for [...]
Housing shortage:could this flat-pack £50k ‘modulhus’ be the future of new homes for first-time buyers?
Pre-built, customisable homes are being touted as a way to help get first-time buyers onto the property ladder. A far cry from the low-quality post-Second World War prefab houses, new technology means that factory-built [...]
Challenges and opportunities in the next decade
What part will Brexit, housing policy and industry innovation play in meeting the nation’s housing challenges? The 10th RESI conference is focussed on the challenges in housing the next generation. It will mark my fourth [...]
The Creative Process of Zaha Hadid, As Revealed Through Her Paintings
Today, on October 31st, we celebrate what would have been the 66th birthday of Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) who tragically died in March. Internationally renowned for her avant-garde search for architectural proposals that reflect modern living, Hadid made abstract [...]
OBLON Bathroom furniture set
Oblon is the new line of bathroom accessories and containers by Novello that combines the refined purity of Japanese culture with contemporary taste and living requirements. Essential, rigorous and at the same time harmonious forms, for [...]
Internet of Things: what’s your favourite tech gadget ?
In 1999 Kevin Ashton, then at P&G, coined the term ‘Internet of Things’. It was a new term, but not a new operation. It was known as pervasive computing, ubicomp, and ambient intelligence. The 90s database [...]
These Remarkable Floating Farms Could Help Feed Hungry People Around The World
I think it’s safe to say we love food here in North America. Obesity is through the roof, with a staggering two thirds of Americans over the age of 20 clinically overweight. That’s the highest rate in [...]